On Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:37:27 CET Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 08:18:14PM +0100 schrieb ralfconn: > > Il 27/03/24 19:58, J. Roeleveld ha scritto: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers. > > > Changes can occur on both sides which means I need to have it > > > synchronise in both directions. > > > > > > Does anyone have any thoughts on this? > > > > > > Also, both servers are connected using a slow VPN link, which is why I > > > can't simply access files on the remote server. > > +1 for Unison. I’ve been using it for many years now to synchronise between > the four PC systems in my household. > > > I use it just for that but can't say anything about the VPN bit, my > > servers are on local network. > > Unison creates a local index of all files it syncronised. So when you move a > file around on one end, Unison will notice that because the file at the new > location has the same hash as the file at the old location. As a result, it > does not transmit the file anew to the remote host, but instead copies it > locally on the remote host. > > Since Unison uses ssh underneath, you can use ssh’s transparent compression > to speed up the transfer.
Unison sounds interesting. How does it handle conflicts (eg, file is changed on both sides?) -- Joost
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